Innovation Compass is the direct route to the product innovations of K 2013 in Düsseldorf

 

Panel of experts responsible for current key themes and search matrix for exhibitors and visitors

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New dates announced for TIPREX 2013 - 4th Thai International Plastics and Rubber Exhibition set for 3 to 6 April 2013

 

2013 theme: Moulding the future of plastics and rubber

Space applications are now open for TIPREX 2013. New dates announced for TIPREX 2013 - 4th Thai International Plastics and Rubber Exhibition set for 3 to 6 April 2013 - read more ...

The life and work of Hermann Staudinger (part 2)

 
Hermann Staudinger

The Twenties are generally idealised as the “golden age”. Contrary to the cliché, they were in fact a decade with both ups and downs – for Hermann Staudinger too. The chemist, who had been working in Zurich since 1912, started it spectacularly: in 1920, he published his “Macromolecular Manifesto”, which gave plastics chemistry its foundations but was rejected resoundingly by the organic chemistry establishment. The opposition that Staudinger faced as a result threatened to isolate him, but he defended his theory stubbornly and continued his attempts to prove experimentally the existence of the “giant molecules” he had postulated in theory. The life and work of Hermann Staudinger (part 2) - Read more about the life and work of Hermann Staudinger

Rubber Chicken Flies into Solar Radiation Storm

 
Radiation storm at the sun surface

Last month, when the sun unleashed the most intense radiation storm (picture) since 2003, peppering satellites with charged particles and igniting strong auroras around both poles, a group of high school students in Bishop, California, knew just what to do. They launched a rubber chicken. Rubber Chicken Flies into Solar Radiation Storm - Read more

Life and work of Hermann Staudinger

 
Hermann Staudinger

Hermann Staudinger (23. 3. 1881 – 8. 9. 1965) gave plastics chemisty its theoretical foundations. Although his outstanding career as a scientist – doctorate at 22, professorship at 26 – culminated in the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Staudinger has remained largely unknown – as a public figure too – and only specialists are familiar with his life and work nowadays. A series that is starting here on www.k-online.de aims to rectify this. It portrays Staudinger as a productive and unorthodox thinker, who refused to accept conventional arguments in both his scientific and political activities – until his ideas finally became mainstream convictions. Life and work of Hermann Staudinger - Part 1: 1881-1919